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2026 (Page 69)

Super-salty pizza sends six kids to the hospital in Japan, linguistics blamed

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 13, 2026
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Home economics class pizza had more tsumami than it was supposed to.

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• Japan
• (cooking • crazy • food • Japanese language • linguistics • pizza • schools • weird)

Can you eat lunch in Tokyo for less than 500 yen?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 13, 2026

We go in search of the elusive cheap meal to find out what you can eat for US$3.20 in Tokyo. 

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• Japan
• (cheap eats • cheap food • famiy restaurants • food • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • one coin lunch • restaurants • Saizeriya • SNJO • soba • Tokyo)

How to make fancy matcha sake chocolates with just 15 minutes of real work【Recipe】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 13, 2026

Matcha mirin nama chocolate sounds, looks, and tastes fancy, but is super-easy to make.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • cooking • cooking sake • cool • crazy • food • ganache • green tea • matcha • matcha sweets • mirin • nama choco • nama chocolate • recipe • rice wine • sake • sweets • weird)

Asakusa’s Yoi no Yoi bar crawl is one of Tokyo’s best local nights out

• Elliot Hale
  Feb 13, 2026

Just 1,000 yen per stop lets you drink, eat, and mingle with friendly strangers through this historic neighborhood.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • annual event • Asakusa • Asami Oshima • bar crawl • bar hopping • basashi • beer • COK • drink • food • home • horse meat • izakaya • Kannon-ura • Kannon-ura Sakedokoro Yu • omikuji • pub • rickshaw • sakaba • Sensoji Temple • SNJO • Taco44 • takoyaki • Tokyo • tokyo rickshaw • Yoi no Yoi)

Starbucks Japan releases new sakura goods and drinkware for cherry blossom season 2026

• Oona McGee
  Feb 13, 2026

Hanami season arrives early with this limited-edition collection of mugs, tumblers, gifts, and Stanley cups.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2026 • COK • cups • drinkware • hanami • limited edition • mugs • sakura • sakura 2026 • sakura drinkware • sakura goods • Stanley • Stanley cup • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks sakura • tumblers)

Starbucks Japan unveils new sakura Frappuccino for cherry blossom season 2026

• Oona McGee
  Feb 12, 2026

Limited-edition drinks capture the excitement and anticipation of a Japanese spring.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom • cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2026 • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • hanami • Japanese Frappuccino • latte • matcha • sakura • sakura 2026 • sakura Frappuccino • soda • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tea)

Is a snow day the perfect day to beat the crowds at a popular ramen restaurant? [Experiment]

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2026

Restaurant known for numbingly spicy ramen and intimidatingly long lines lures us out in the Tokyo snow.

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• Japan
• (COK • cold • Kikanbo • Noodles • P.K. Sanjun • ramen • Restaurant • SNJO • snow)

Sanrio changes Hello Kitty lead designer for first time in 46 years

• Oona McGee
  Feb 12, 2026

A new dawn calls for Japan’s most famous cat…but who will be picking up the baton?

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• Japan
• (Aya • character design • design • Hello Kitty • Ichigo Shimbun • Kitty • manga • news • Sanrio • Yuko Yamaguchi)

Testing Japan’s fluffy mayonnaise pancake cooking hack【SoraKitchen】

• SoraNews24
  Feb 12, 2026

Mr. Sato heads to the SoraKitchen with a bowl of pancake batter, a tube of mayo, and a desire to know if, and how, this cooking hack works.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • cooking hacks • crazy • food • hotcakes • mayo • mayonnaise • Mr. Sato • pancakes • SNJO • SoraKitchen • weird)

Five amazing snow-view open-air Japanese hot springs in Hokkaido [Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2026

Great reasons to add yukimiroten to your vocabulary and itinerary alike.

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• Japan
• (baths • beautiful • COK • Hokkaido • hot springs • hotel • inns • Japan travel • Japanese inns • onsen • outdoors • rotenburo • ryokan • snow • tourism • travel • yukimiroten)

Studio Ghibli adds new anime character badges to its streetwear shop in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 12, 2026

Tiny plump badges with a lot of heart, and they’re affordably priced too.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime merchandise • badges • brooches • Donguri Kyowakoku • Earwig and the Witch • Ghibli • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • manga • merchandise • No Face • pin badges • Porco Rosso • Soot Sprite • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

Paying for prostitution isn’t illegal in Japan, but it could be soon

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 11, 2026

Ministry of Justice eyeing changes to Prostitution Prevention Law.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • law • prostitution • Prostitution Prevention Law • society)

Satisfy your sweet tooth with cheesecake and more all-you-can-eat sweets at Cheese Garden

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 11, 2026

This special sweets buffet is easily accessible from Tokyo and is truly baking the world a better place.

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • cake • Cheese Garden • Cheesecake • COK • dessert • Emi Terrace • Saitama • SNJO • sweets)

McDonald’s Japan hack: What happens when you put an apple pie inside a Big Mac?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 11, 2026

This could be the best idea in the world…or the worst.

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• Japan
• (apple pie • Big Mac • cool • fast food • food • food hack • hack • hacks • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • SNJO • sweets)

Our reporter is willing to die on the pseudo-Italian restaurant Olive Hill

• Master Blaster
  Feb 11, 2026

Saizeriwhatnow?

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• Japan
• (cheap eats • dining • food • Italian food • Olive Hill • Olive No Oka • restaurants • Saizeriya)

Man in Japan takes four parakeets hostage in attempt to force woman to meet with him

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 11, 2026

Tells woman that “There is no way for you to save the parakeets except to come home.”

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• Japan
• (animals • birds • crazy • crime • parakeets • pets • weird)

Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 11, 2026

New bullet train goes into service next month with route connecting Tokyo and Tohoku region.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • COK • East Japan Railway Company • Hakobyun • JR East • shinkansen • trains)

Foreigners accounting for over 80 percent of off-course skiers needing rescue in Japan’s Hokkaido

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 10, 2026

Japan is pissed off about the off-piste skiing.

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• Japan
• (COK • foreign tourists • Hokkaido • outdoors • overtourism • rescue • skiing • snowboarding • society • sports • video)

Blowfish-shaped fugu bento appears to celebrate Japan’s Blowfish Day [Taste test]

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 10, 2026

Yes, fugu can kill you with its poison, but this one might kill us with cuteness.

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• Japan
• (Awajiya • bento • bento boxes • blowfish • boxed lunches • COK • cute • food • fugu • pufferfish • SNJO • taste test)

Japan law lets you claim reward for finding lost property, man may have scammed it over 60 times

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 10, 2026

Tokyo man arrested for stealing smartphone, turning it in to police to claim reward money.

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• Japan
• (crime • fraud • fraudsters • lost property • Lost Property Act • scam artists • scams • theft)

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